Major Section: PROGRAMMING
(Illegal ctx str alist)
causes evaluation to halt with a short
message using the ``context'' ctx
. An error message is printed
using the string str
and alist alist
that are of the same kind
as expected by fmt
. See fmt, and see prog2$ for an
example of how to use a related function, hard-error
(see hard-error).
The difference between illegal
and hard-error
is that the former
has a guard of nil
while the latter has a guard
ot t
. Thus,
you may want to use illegal
rather than hard-error
when you intend
to do guard
verification at some point, and you expect the guard
to guarantee that the illegal
call is never executed.
See prog2$ for an example.